Adjustable fireplace grate-basket.



'PATENTED APR. 2, 190 7.

- H. E. MOOMAW.

ADJUSTABLE FIREPLACE GRATE BASKET.

APPLIOATION FILED JAN.19 .1907.

Q vihmoaco UNITED STATES a rnn'r FFICE.

ADJUSTABLE FIREPLACE GRATE-BASKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

'ratented April 2, 1907.

Application filed Januarv 19, 1907. Serial No. 353.108.

Be it known that I, HENRY E. MooMAw, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chattanooga, county of Hamilton, and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Fireplace Grate-Baskets, of which the following is a full and clear specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front view of a fireplace pro vided with my improved grate-basket. F 2 is an inside perspective view of the gratebasket detached. Fig. 3 is a detail horizontal section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2, and Figs. 4, 5, and 6 detail perspective views showing slightly-modified forms of the guideways. Fig. 7 is a plan view in detail of the slidable hook.

This invention has relation especially to the type of adjustable fireplace grate-basket covered by my former patent, No. 807,302, dated December 12, 1905, wherein the lower supporting-hook is gravitatingly confined in a vertical slot in each of the vertical side bars for the purpose of rendering the grate-basketsupporting hooks adjustable to differentlyspaced lugs on the grate-frames, thereby avoiding the necessity on the part of retail dealers of keeping in stock a great variety of baskets to fit the various makes of grateframes now in use.

The object of the present improvements is to so improve the adjustable devices that the grate-basket may be more easily cast and will thus be less expensive to manufacture and also whereby the grate-basket will be stronger at the sides, as the vertical slots heretofore employed for holding and guiding the adjustable hooks resulted in weakening the side bars.

Referring to the drawings annexed by reference characters, A designates the grate basket as a whole, and a the vertical side bars or posts of the basket. Each of these side bars has cast on it a pair of guideways or flanges a, these guideways being located, respectively, on the front and the rear sides of the bars and projecting, respectively, outwardly and inwardly. At the upper end of each of the side bars is cast the usual upper permanent hook b, which projects inwardly and downwardly in the usual manner and also projects laterally a short distance to provide a downwardly-facing stop-shoulder b.

The guideways a are located at the outer vertical corners of the posts, their outer faces being flush with the outer sides of the bars, and these guideways may be rounded, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, or they may be rectangular, as shown in the other figures, and it will benoted also that they may project beyond the main faces of the bars, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, l, and 6, or they may be formed by grooving the inner and outer faces of the bars, as shown in Fig. 5.

The gravitating hook is designated by the letter C, and its head is formed so as to embrace the two guideways and the outer face of the postthat is, its outer end is provided with a hook-like portion 0, which engages around the outer guideway, while the inner part of the head is provided with a hook-like portion a, which engages around the inner guideway, these hook-like portions being formed by making a sort of undercut groove vertically in the inner face of the head portion of the hook.

'I he hook C is made to loosely embrace the guideways, so that it will automatically or gravitatingly adjust itself to the lower one of the lugs H on the fireplace-frame, a suffi ciently wide range of adjustment being provided to accommodate all the various grateframes of this character in use, in view of which wide range of adjustabiliey it will be necessary for dealers to keep in stock but this one style of grate-basket and not a comparatively large supply of different makes to accommodate the various styles of grateframes in use.

The upward travel of the adjustable hook is limited by the upper permanent hook, while its lower movement is limited by the lower lug H on the frame. The guideways are terminated at a point sufficiently high above the bottom bars of the grate to enable the adjustable hook to be readily placed on the guideways and removed therefrom. To prevent the hooks accidentally sliding off the ways while the grate-basket is in stock or in transit, I notch the guid eways at a near their lower ends and twist a wire loop a into these notches in such manner that the loop forms a stop or rest for the hook, while at the same time the wire may be readily removed, if desired, after the grate-basket is placed in the frame.

It will be observed that a feature of importance lies in making the guideways shorter than the distance of travel between the permanent hook and the bottom bars of the be varieo without departing from the invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A grate-basket whose vertical side bars are each provided with guideways or flanges projecting forwardly and backwardly and whose upper end is provided with a hook, and a gravitating hook loosely mounted on each pair of guideways, the head of this hook being grooved along its inner side so as to embrace the guideways and the outer face of the side bar, for the purpose set forth.

2. A grate-basket whose vertical side bars are each provided with guideways or flanges projecting forwardly and backwardly and whose upper end is provided with a hook, and a gravitating hook loosely mounted on each pair of guideways, the head of this hook being grooved along its inner side so as to embrace the guideways and the outer face of the side bar, said guideways being shorter than the distance of travel of the movable hook between the upper hook and the bottom of the grate, for the purposes set forth.

3. A grate-basket whose vertical side bars are each provided with an upper hook and a pair of vertical guideways one projecting inwardly and theother projecting outwardly and both extending along the corners of the grate-bars and being shorter in length than the distance between the upper hook of the grate and the bottom of the grate, and a gravitating hook slidingly mounted on each pair of guideways, this hook having its head In Figs. 4 and are each-provided with a pair of guideways projecting respectively inwardly and frontwardly and whose upper end is provided wi h a downwardly-turned hook, and a gravitating hook loosely mounted on each pair of guideways and having the inner face of its head portion grooved vertically, this groove being undercut so as to embrace the outer face of the side bar and fit around the guideways, said guideways being shorter than the distance of travel of the hook between the upper hook and the bottom of the grate, whereby the adjustable hook may be removed by a lateral or sidewise movement, substantially as set forth.

5. A grate-basket Whose vertical side bars are each provided with a pair of guideways projecting respectively inwardly and frontwardly and whose upper end is provided with a downwardly-turned hook, and a gravitating hook loosely mounted on each pair of guideways and having the inner face of its head portion grooved vertically, this groove being undercut so as to embrace the outer face of the side bar and fit'around the guideways, said guideways being shorter than the distance of travel of the hook between the upper hook and the bottom of the grate, whereby the adjustable hook may be removed by a lateral or sidewise movement, and a removable stop device engaging the ways at a point between the adjustable hook and the point of detachment from the ways, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses, this 14th day of January, 1907.

HENRY E. MOOMAW.

Witnesses:

M. MYER BRowNE,

S. LAOHMAN. 

